REUTER'S REPORT.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1918, Page 2

REUTER'S REPORT.

BRITISH IN ITOT PURSUIT.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] (Reuter’s Telegram.; LONDON, Sept. 4th.. Reuter’s correspondent at British Headquarters, writing on Wednesday morning, says that great pursuit of tho retiring Germans continues: ' The German rearguards are quite unable to check our galloping batteries, which frequently* fired at the masses moving eastward at point-blank, range. Floods have been caused by the enemy damming the Sensee and Scarpe -Canal .increased yesterday, but have not seriously retarded our progress. The amount of enemy war material that has been cleared up in the territory over which we have swept, is immense. The enemy had no time to destroy all the canal crossings. -

We rounded up yesterday over 2600 prisoners, 22 v field guns a'nd booty at Richebourg-St. Yaast. In addition to that already cabled, it iucluded two 4.2 howitzers

LEAVING THE VESLE. LONDON, September 5. Reuter reporting at 4 p.m. from French Headquarters says; that the Germans <tre falling back between the Somme and the Oise before the armies of Generals Debeny and Humbert. This morning our advanced cavalry were little more than a mile from Guiscard. *- General Mangin’s troops are also advancing, and have, worked up to tho edge of the ravine adjacent to tho important Laffaux plateau. There are numerous .signs of tho Germans preparing to withdraw from the Vesle sector, probably to the old fortified line, crossing tho Aisne from Juvincourfc and Reims. t Fires behind the German front on the Vesle are reported in increasing numbers •